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Belfast · 2021 — 第 4 / 14 章 · 3'26" · B2

Billy Clanton Threatens the Family, Explained：double-bluff

Billy Clanton and McLaury knock at the door and ask for Buddy's father. On the surface it's a friendly wee chat about the street; underneath it's a shakedown. "We're looking to cleanse the community a wee bit," Clanton says, and the polite phrase hides a threat to run them out unless they pay or pledge.

あらすじ

On a Belfast street, Buddy gets a lesson in answering the loaded question 'Are you Protestant or Catholic?' — the trick is to double-bluff. Then Billy Clanton and McLaury arrive and tell Buddy to fetch his father. Clanton demands money or loyalty and warns that neighbours who refused have already been driven out. Buddy's father stands his ground before taking his son inside.

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このシーンの表現

double-bluff

to fool someone by telling the truth

The son is told to answer with the truth, so the other side will read it as a lie.

Telling the boss the real deadline was a double-bluff; he thought I was padding it.

このシーンの他の表現

  • out and about

    going about outside

  • trick question

    a question with a hidden trap

  • cleanse the community

    a euphemism for driving people out

  • get out of hand

    to become uncontrollable

  • a waiting game

    a contest of patience

このシーンのメモ一覧

71 行のセリフに 23 件のメモ

表現 · B1get ahold of someone

to reach someone

Doctor says, "Well, I've been trying -to get ahold of you since yesterday." - -Why do you even have to know? -In case they attack you.
表現 · B1out and about

going about outside

The father asks when danger comes; the answer is whenever you are out and about.

-When? -When you're out and about.
発音out and

Link out and together so it sounds like one unit.

-When? -When you're out and about.
表現 · A2come up to someone

to approach someone

They can just come up to you when you're not expecting it and ask you, "Are you Protestant or Catholic?"
表現 · B1a trick question

a question with a hidden trap

The father calls it a trick question because the askers hide their own side first.

But it's a trick question, you see, 'cause they don't tell you what they are.
スラング · B1gob

mouth (slang) — Northern Irish slang for mouth; rough and local.

And what do you say then to not get a dig in the gob?
表現 · C1cleanse the community

a euphemism for driving people out

The man at the door wraps the removal of neighbors in the clean word cleanse.

We're looking to cleanse the community a wee bit.
スラング · A2wee

small, a little — Irish and Scottish for little; warm and local.

We're looking to cleanse the community a wee bit.
表現 · B2touch someone's family

to harm someone's family

You touch my family and I'll kill you.
文法 · B2You touch my family and I'll kill you

imperative and: Touch X and Y means if you touch X, then Y will happen at once.

You touch my family and I'll kill you.
発音touch my

In fast speech touch my blurs; keep it light and joined.

You touch my family and I'll kill you.
スラング · A2fella

mate, guy — Casual address between men; too loose for work.

Calm down, fella.
表現 · B2get out of hand

to become uncontrollable

The visitor warns that things get out of hand fast, then slides into extortion.

Look, things get out of hand pretty quick round these parts.
表現 · B1be in touch

to contact someone later

I'll be in touch.
スラング · B1big boys

the older or powerful ones — Casual for the older or more powerful crowd.

All the big boys have left.
表現 · A2give someone a hand

to help someone

Here, can you give us a hand?
表現 · B2Better me than someone

better me than the other person

Better me than Billy Clanton.
表現 · A2hide behind something

to shelter behind something

There's a few men hiding behind them barricades.
文法 · B2where they're afraid for their families

place clause: The where-clause shows the situation that keeps them hiding, not a real location.

And they'll keep hiding where they're afraid for their families.
表現 · B2a waiting game

a contest of patience

At the barricade the phrase admits that holding still and waiting is now the whole job.

It's a waiting game now.
文法 · B1When it's time for that wall to come down

time clause: The when-clause sets the moment; the main clause says what he will do then.

When it's time for that wall to come down, I'll be the first to swing a hammer, but now?
表現 · C1act the Lone Ranger

to play the lone hero

The neighbor teases the man on the barricade for acting the lone hero instead of sharing the load.

We can't all be acting the Lone Ranger.
発音can't all

Practise a weak can't with stress on all so it is not heard as can.

We can't all be acting the Lone Ranger.

「Billy Clanton Threatens the Family」を読み解く

What's really going on

The double-bluff speech is the film's sharpest joke about sectarian identity: the only way to seem trustworthy is to tell the truth in a way that sounds like a lie. "But I am a Protestant," Buddy protests, and the answer — "That's the point!" — says everything. In a place where your name and street mark your tribe, sincerity itself becomes a tactic. The knock at the door turns that paranoia real. Clanton's 'cleanse the community' is ethnic-cleansing language in a cardigan; 'the odd man out in this street' is a warning dressed as neighbourly concern. When Buddy's father answers, "You touch my family and I'll kill you," the film lets a gentle man speak the only language the street understands. Even the talk at the barricades, "It's a waiting game now," shows a community teaching itself to endure rather than fight.

Theme

IdentityThe 'Protestant or Catholic?' question reduces a person to a label, and the double-bluff shows how survival forces you to perform one.
Family loveA father's quiet threat to kill anyone who touches his family shows love expressed as readiness to protect, not words.

このチャプターで学べること

  • The truth can work as a perfect bluff.
  • Odd questions at the door test your nerve.
  • A waiting game is patience used as a weapon.
  • Euphemisms can dress up violence as duty.

発音のポイント

  • out and — Link out and together so it sounds like one unit.
  • touch my — In fast speech touch my blurs; keep it light and joined.
  • can't all — Practise a weak can't with stress on all so it is not heard as can.
You touch my family and I'll kill you.

The father's flat warning to Clanton: harm my family and there will be no negotiation, only violence in return. It is the one threat that even armed men respect.

We can't all be acting the Lone Ranger.

A point about community: not everyone can play the lone hero riding in alone. Some must wait, watch, and hold the line together instead.

"They also serve who stand and wait."

A borrowed poetic line used to defend patience: those who only stand guard and wait are serving the cause too, even if they never fight.

But you have to double-bluff them.

The lesson's punchline: since the questioner assumes you will lie, you answer truthfully and let him doubt it. Honesty becomes the disguise.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Buddy's father threaten to kill Billy Clanton?

Clanton has come to his door demanding money or a pledge and warning that uncooperative neighbours get driven out. The threat is his way of drawing a line: his family is not for sale, and he would rather fight than be intimidated.

Is the family Protestant or Catholic?

The family is Protestant, which is the point of the double-bluff lesson: being honest about it is itself the trick. The film uses them to show that sectarian violence threatened families on both sides of the divide.

What does 'cleanse the community' mean here?

It is a euphemism for driving out people of the other religion. Clanton frames ethnic intimidation as tidying up the street, which is exactly what makes the line so chilling.

Was the family forced to leave Belfast?

The scene shows the pressure that runs through the whole film: threats, barricades, and a street turning on itself. It pushes the family to weigh leaving for England, a choice the movie follows to its end.

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